Kuang Lab
Adaptive Materials & Advanced Manufacturing
-We engineer forms and functions of soft (bio)materials for sustainability and healthcare
Welcome to the research group website of Professor Xiao Kuang
Our research focuses on understanding and developing transformative manufacturing for functional soft (bio)materials/systems.
Adaptive Materials & Advanced Manufacturing Laboratory
Through experimental, theoretical analysis, and computational tools, we study the functional responses of (bio)polymeric materials/systems to external stimuli (such as heat, light, chemical, magnetic, mechanical, and acoustic fields) to guide the design of multifunctional composite (bio)materials and innovate advanced manufacturing technologies for enhanced material/energy sustainability and precision health!
【Aug 13, 2024】Dr. Kuang gave an invited talk " Soft Adaptive Materials Enable Voxel 3D/4D printing " in the iCANX YOUTH TALK series.
【Aug 11, 2024】Dr. Kuang gave a talk " Self-enhancing Sono-inks Enable Deep-Penetration Acoustic Volumetric Printing " in 2024 Additive Manufacturing of Soft Materials (GRS) Seminar, Bryant University.
【Aug 6, 2024】 Dr. Kuang presented technical demostration "Through-tissue Ultrasound Printing for Noninvasive Surgery" to congressional staff on the NIH Campus, at Bethesda, Maryland.
【Apr 2024】Dr. Kuang successfully completed teaching the Spring semester course "3D Printing the Human Body: From Tissue Engineering to the Future of Regenerative Medicine" in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Tufts University.
【Mar 2024】Dr. Kuang gave an invited talk " Instructive Biomaterials Enable 3D (Bio)printing for Regenerative and Precision Medicine" in MGB (Engineering in Medicine Seminar Series).
【Mar 2024】Dr. Kuang gave an invited talk " Integrated Experiment and Computation in Developing and Manufacturing of Soft Biomaterials for Precision Health" in the Department of Applied Science, College of William and Mary.
【Feb 2024】Dr. Kuang gave an invited talk " Instructive Biomaterials Enable 3D (Bio)printing for Regenerative and Precision Medicine "in the Department of Biomedical Engineering, New Jersey Institute of Technology.
【Jan 2024】Dr. Kuang gave an invited talk " Adaptive Soft Materials Enable Advanced Manufacturing: Development, Mechanisms, Applications" in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
【Dec 2023】 Dr. Kuang's leading author paper on "Self-enhancing Sono-inks Enable Deep-Penetration Acoustic Volumetric Printing" was published in Science. Congratulations!
【Aug 2023】Dr. Kuang gave an invited talk "Soft Adaptive Materials Enable 3D/4D (bio)printing for Healthcare and Medicine" in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Sydney.
【Aug 2023】Dr. Kuang gave an invited talk "Cell-instructive Tough Hydrogels Enable Microfluidic (Bio)printing Functional Blood Vessels" in 3D Bioprinting and Bioimaging workshop at the University of Sydney.
4D Printing of Mechanically Ultrastretchable and Ultrastrength Liquid‐Free Ionoelastomers with Rapid Responsiveness Adv. Funct. Mater. 2024 (Co-author)
Rapid Volumetric Bioprinting of Decellularized Extracellular Matrix Bioinks Adv. Mater. 2024 (Co-author)
3D Assembly of Cryo (Bio) Printed Modular Units for Shelf‐Ready Scalable Tissue Fabrication Adv. Funct. Mater 2024 (Co-author)
Multimaterial coextrusion (bio)printing of composite polymer biomaterial ink and hydrogel bioink for tissue fabrication Composites Part B: Engineering 2024 (Co-author)
Self-enhancing Sono-inks Enable Deep-Penetration Acoustic Volumetric Printing Science 2023. (First author)
Multiscale photoacoustic tomography using reversibly switchable thermochromics Journal of Biomedical Optics, 2023. (Co-first author)
The Effect of Filler Dimensionality and Content on Resistive Viscoelasticity of Conductive Polymer Composites for Soft Strain Sensors Polymers 2023 (Corresponding author)
Liquid-embedded (bio) printing of alginate-free, standalone, ultrafine, and ultrathin-walled cannular structures PNAS, 2023 (Co-author)
Volumetric additive manufacturing of pristine silk-based (bio) inks, Nat. Commun. 2023 (Coauthor)
Functional Tough Hydrogels: Design, Processing, and Biomedical Applications, Acc. Mater. Res. 2023. Front cover (First author)
Volumetric additive manufacturing of pristine silk-based (bio)inks, Nat. Commun.(Co-author)